Rita Hayworth Quotes

All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.

After all, a girl is... well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it.

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.

I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.

I can't take his genius any more.

Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.

Whatever you write about me, don't make it sad.

From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them.

Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?

I haven’t had everything from life. I’ve had too much.

I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.

Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.

To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.

Who wouldn't prefer having breakfast in bed to getting up at the crack of dawn and having a cup of coffee in a studio makeup department?

From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.

I'm an afternoon person.

When you're in love you're living, you matter.

Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.

I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.

When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.

Just because I was married to Aly Khan, people think I'm rich. Well, I'm not. I never got a dime from Aly or from any of my husbands.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered.

They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt.

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.